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  • Next Summer

    Hailey Abbott

    Three girls. Too many boys. One tempting summer. Beth Know I love George. And everyone thinks we're perfect together. So why does that sexy new lifeguard keep flirting with me? And why do I like it so much? Ella Bye-bye, bad girl. I'm trying to cha...

  • In Search of the Time and Space Machine

    Deborah Abela

    Max Remy is eleven and bored with her life. Her father went off to Hollywood and ends up married to a movie star and Max is left with her mother who works, works, works all the time. So Max invents Alex Crane, a super spy, and begins to fantasize abo...

  • The Hunt for Home

    Ginny Aiken

    Leaving Dallas behind, Casey Hunt drives to Eden, Texas, praying that her assignment as the temporary manager of the small town's only diner will be successful. But when the diner's employees quit before she sets foot inside, she knows her luck has p...

  • Negima! Volume 6

    Ken Akamatsu

    The chaotic class trip continues as Negi Springfield and his thirty-one beautiful female students explore the historic cities of Kyoto and Nara. Negi’s special headache is Konoka, the headmaster’s granddaughter, who turns out to have her own magi...

  • The Naked Mole-Rat Letters

    Mary Amato

    When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated email letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship, in this story about family, friendship, and growing up....

  • The Sheriff's Daughter

    Jessica Andersen

    CODE OF HONOR Dr. Logan Hart was just passing through Black Horse Beach, but when gunshots sent country veterinarian Samantha Blackwell ducking for cover beneath his rock-hard body, she instinctively knew that the macho medical investigator would ...

  • Bedtime!

    Christine Anderson

    Despite her mother’s insistence that she takes her bath and gets ready for bed, young Melanie is far too busy building her tower in case the elephants come to play--and so the bedtime battle between the two begins and neither is quite certain who t...

  • Peaches

    Jodi Lynn Anderson

    The New York Times bestselling debut novel from critically acclaimed author Jodi Lynn Anderson follows three very different girls as they discover the secret to finding the right boy, making the truest of friends, and picking the perfect Georgia peac...

  • Picture Me Rollin'

    Black Artemis

    In this hardcore novel of love and betrayal, a female ex-con moved by the power, poetry, and dangerous passion of Tupac Shakur has plans to play it straight and do the right thing for her future survival. But her lover Jesus, the man she went to pris...

  • A Perfect Day for Love Letters, Volume 1

    George Asakura

    FIVE LETTERS . . . FIVE CHANCES AT LOVE

    • When a librarian receives a love letter hidden in one of her books, she finds a very unlikely reading partner.
    • The meanest boy at school sends a letter that falls into the wrong hands, compel...

  • Confessions of a Lingerie Addict

    Jennifer Ashley

    BRENDA'S -- not VICTORIA'S -- SECRET The fixation began on New Year's Day: Silky, expensive slips from New York and Italy. Camisoles and thongs from Beverly Hills. Before, Brenda Scott would have blushed to be caught dead in them. Now, she'd ditch...

  • Fall Girl

    Pierce Askegren

  • Meet the Thradons!

    J.D. Austin

    In the sequel to Bobby's Girl, Bobby, an independent filmmaker, and a few of his friends accompany Bobby's gorgeous, extraterrestrial new wife back to her home on the planet Thradon to meet her parents, but Bobby's plans to introduce the Thra...

  • Vengeance Trail

    James Axler

    DAWN AFTER DARKAs megalomaniac barons and savage anarchy compete to lay claim to post-nuclear America, perseverance and a will to live are what keep Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists roving through the worst and best of a new world. Ar...

  • Project Eve

    Lauren Bach

    EVERYTHING HAS A PRICE... To dig up the truth behind the mysterious death of a senator's daughter, private investigator Rachel Anderson is going back to school. Passing herself off as a transfer student at the small, prestigious college the troubled...

  • Polar Bears on The Path

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. The Hopes are ...

  • Pregnancy Of Revenge

    Jacqueline Baird

    Revenge...Italian style! A money-grabbing beauty, that's all she was -- and Jake D'Amato was determined to make Charlotte Summerville pay. His plan was simple: he'd take revenge in his bed! Actually, Charlie's intentions were p...

  • A Delicate Finish

    Jeanette Baker

    Two years ago, without a word of explanation, Francesca DeAngelo's husband, Jake, moved out, leaving her with a hundred-year-old vineyard, their six-year-old son and her youthful, feisty mother-in-law, Julianne Harris. On the surface, Francesca has m...

  • Farthest Reach

    Richard Baker
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The fires of hatred, vengeance, lies, and ambition burn in Cormanthor. SARYA DLARDRAGETH has gone to ground in the ruins of Myth Drannor, seething with hatred for the elves she thought would be easier to defeat. MALKIZID has been summoned from ...

  • Fries Alive!

    David Baldacci

    Freddy Funkhouser comes up with an idea to bolster business for his family's fast-food health restaurant, Burger Castle, and finally defeat Pookesville's biggest bully, Adam Spanker. When Freddy's fun invention goes awry, the results are five very fu...

  • Shattered Justice

    Karen Ball

    Deputy’s Sense of Justice Destroyed There’s no way sheriff’s deputy Dan Justice could have prepared for this. He spent a lifetime ensuring his actions and faith live up to the meaning of his name -- Avidan: “God is just.” Then injustice inv...

  • The Wonder Spot

    Melissa Bank

    "This book is perfect." -- Hadley Freeman, The GuardianA funny, tender, and wickedly insightful look at a young woman's forays into love, work, and friendship over the course of 25 years Nothing comes easily to Sophie Applebaum, the black sheep...

  • Tiger, Tiger

    Lynne Reid Banks

    Two tiger cub brothers are torn from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum. Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia. She adores her cub, Boots. Julius, a young ...

  • Bad Guys

    Linwood Barclay

    In Linwood Barclay's debut, paranoid Zack Walker transplanted his city-savvy wife and teenagers to the peaceful burbs--where nervous fathers rest easy. Well, not quite. Now, another suspense-filled adventure, the Walkers have moved back e and Zack ca...

  • Clear

    Nicola Barker

    On September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box adjacent to London's Thames River and began starving himself. Forty-four days later, on October 19, he left the box, fifty pounds lighter. That much, at least, is clear. And t...

  • Pandemic

    James Barrington

    Eliminate everyone who knows...Off the island of Crete an illicit diver finds a 30-year-old aircraft on the seabed. He recovers a steel case containing four sealed flasks from amongst the corpses still trapped inside. Within twelve hours he succumbs ...

  • You and Me, Babe

    Chuck Barris

    Published to acclaim in 1974 -- and substantially rewritten and expanded in this new edition -- You and Me, Babe was the New York Times best-seller that launched Chuck Barris's career as a top-selling author. But unlike his later books (Confessions o...

  • Unmasked

    C.J. Barry

    To the merchants he plunders, he's the Ghost Rider of the Dead Zone. To sector law enforcement, he's a wanted pirate. To the slaves he rescues, he's the savior, laghato. To one determined female, Qaade Deter is serious trouble. Torrie Masters had ...

  • The Wedding Deception

    Adrienne Basso

    Discover Adrienne Basso's seductive tale of scandal, trickery, and true love -- as a gentleman convinced reputation means everything risks his good name for a most unexpected, unconventional bride... MARRY IN HASTE Marriages come in all shape...

  • The Simoqin Prophecies

    Samit Basu

    The Simoqin Prophecies marks the debut of an assured new voice. Written with consummate ease and brimming with wit and allusion, it is at once classic SFF and subtle spoof, featuring scantily clad centauresses, flying carpets, pink trolls, belly danc...

  • Best Foot Forward

    Joan Bauer

    The must-read sequel to the beloved Rules of the Road, from award-winning author Joan Bauer.Jenna Boller is dripping with newfound maturity after her life-altering summer on the road. She has a job she loves at Gladstone Shoes, a best friend who make...

  • After the Storm

    Cassandra Darden Bell

    With her life in a mess after accidentally stumbling upon her husband in a compromising position with his assistant, thirty-three-year-old Jessi Andrews is faced with a lack of self-esteem, excess weight gain, an adulterous husband, and the prospects...

  • The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

    Aimee Bender

    What would you write if no one knew who you were?In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of the Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind col...

  • The Practice of Deceit

    Elizabeth Benedict

    This smart psychological thriller about a therapist who marries the wrong woman is “a lot of wicked fun” (Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered).   When Eric Lavender meets the attorney Colleen O’Brien Golden, his position as one of M...

  • The Secrets Between Them

    Nikki Benjamin

    Garden of Secrets... Evan Graham's assignment was simple: pose as a live-in gardener in order to prove Hannah James an unfit mother to help her father-in-law gain custody of her five-year-old son, Will. But the quietly beautiful widow was nothi...

  • Am I the Princess or the Frog?

    Jim Benton

    LOVE IS IN THE AIR. SO YOU MIGHT JUST WANT TO STAY INSIDE. Dear Dumb Diary, I got another poem today from You -- Know -- Who ... She is the fairest blossom, true, She blooms in any weather. But I must love her from afar. We'll never be t...

  • When Love Calls, You Better Answer

    Bertice Berry

    Full of spirit and wisdom, the novels of Bertice Berry bring to life a rich tapestry of human experience. Now she turns her eye to matters of the heart, with an endearing main character who can't seem to keep bad men out of her life. Bernita Brow...

  • Blame it on the Blackout

    Heidi Betts

    WHAT HAPPENS IN THE ELEVATOR, STAYS IN THE ELEVATOR In the pitch blackness, trapped between floors, Peter Reynolds had almost convinced himself that the woman in the suddenly too-cramped-for-comfort elevator car was not off-limits...and that the d...

  • Daughter of the Dragon

    Ilsa J. Bick

    With her family discredited by a traitor, Katana Tormark plans to regain her clan's honor by challenging House Kurtia's right to rule the Combine, openly challenging their authority and pushing them into a conflict with the Republic, but now she face...

  • The Penderwicks

    Jeanne Birdsall

    When the four Penderwick sisters find themselves staying on a beautiful estate called Arundel for their summer holidays, they can't wait to explore the wonderful, sprawling grounds. And even more wonderful is Jeffrey, son of Arundel's owner -- the pe...

  • The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs

    Betty G. Birney

    Life in Sassafras Springs has always been predictable, boring even, but one afternoon that changes when Eben McAllister's pa challenges him to find Seven Wonders in Sassafras that rival the real Seven Wonders of the World. The reward? An adventure th...

  • Valiant

    Holly Black

    When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's ...

  • The Heist

    Michael A. Black

    Linc Jackson and his buddy Rick Weaver thought they'd seen it all on the brutal battlefields of Desert Storm, but found themselves displaced and forgotten men when they came back to the States. Now, a year later, the opportunity of a lifetime suddenl...

  • The Nobodies

    N.E. Bode

    Fern and Howard are off to camp to learn the art of being Anybodies. But Camp Happy Sunshine Good Times is not what they expected: The bus driver is blind, the counselors have beaks, and a vicious mole is on the loose, attacking campers! Fern and How...

  • Camp Ford

    Johnny D. Boggs

    When he is captured by the Rebels in Louisiana, Union soldier Win MacNaughton is sent to Camp Ford, Texas, the largest prison west of the Mississippi, where he and his fellow prisoners challenge the guards to a life-or-death game of baseball. Reprint...

  • Bloom

    Karl Bollers

    Emma's fought her family, the Boston mob and her own boyfriend - and won! Now, the young mutant sets her sights on the Big Apple and Empire State University, where she becomes extremely friendly with another, more experienced telepath. But is this re...

  • The Happy Troll

    Max Bolliger

    Trolls from far and wide came to hear Gus sing.
    His singing made them happy.

    The tale of a troll who learns the hard way that riches don't bring happiness

    In exchange for Gus's songs, the trolls brought him crunchy nuts and juicy be...

  • Love of My Life // The Merry Marquis

    Meredith Bond

    TREAT HER LIKE A LADY The fabled land of India is alluring...mysterious...and precisely where Miss Cassandra Renwick wants to be, after an unmannerly lord makes her the laughingstock of London. All the men at the Governor-General's ball in Calcutt...

  • Soul Stealer

    Martin Booth

    A sinister magician... a masterful plot... and millions of souls at stake... Thrust into a world of ancient spells, dangerous games, and deep-seated malice between old rivals, Pip and Tim are in for the most chilling adventure of their lives. Over t...

  • How to Be Bad

    David Bowker

    Mark is a mild-mannered twenty-three-year-old bookseller who makes endless lists about stupid things. His life changes when he reestablishes contact with his old girlfriend, Caro. At seventeen, Caro was an implausibly sexy, promiscuous, druggy big-mo...

  • The Rogue

    Celeste Bradley

    He is a rake of the highest order, moving through Society in an endless pursuit of pleasure and delight. He has resisted joining the Liar's Club, a band of renegade spies who serve the Crown in complete secrecy. But when true love beckons, he must de...

  • Formidable Enemy

    Terry Bramlett

    Roger Stimson is an emergency-room nurse in New Orleans, trying to forget his past as an intelligence and bio-chemical officer who almost single-handedly stopped an alien invasion of Earth by the Enochians. Now, eight years later, the Enochians are b...

  • Bad Man's Gulch

    Max Brand

    One sheriff and two deputies have already disappeared in the rough-and-tumble mining town of Slosson’s Gulch. The same fate awaits any other man who crosses the cutthroats and thieves who thrive there. Pedro Melendez is a gambler and a drifter, try...

  • The Devil's Lair

    Peter Brandvold

    When bounty hunter Lou Prophet and his partner Louisa Bonaventure capture a gang of stage-robbers, they haul their quarry to a remote town to get their due. But Bitter Creek proves even more dangerous than hunting outlaws when Sam Scanlon and his mur...

  • Heartstone

    D.C. Brod

    Heartstone weaves elements of the Arthurian legend into a contemporary quest tale in which a young woman seeks the truth behind her father's disappearance and the mysterious stone he left her. Maxine Pike teaches English and folklore at a community c...

  • Redemption

    Linda Broday

    Laurel had left her sordid past behind. The former saloon girl vowed her difficult journey from Missouri to the small town of Redemption would be worth it. She planned to start anew, to live a normal, respectable life. Engaged to the mayor, Laurel wa...

  • Killing Mr. Sunday

    Bill Brooks

    Jake Horn once used his hands to heal -- now the same hands kill. He was on the dodge for a crime he didn't commit when the town of Sweet Sorrow took him inand rewarded him with a badge he never wanted. Still, this out-of-the-way Dakota hellhole is a...

  • Choices

    Carolyn Brown

    Douglass Esmeralda Sullivan has just discovered that all men are gutter rats, all except for her six half-Irish, half-Mexican brothers, and sometimes she's not so sure about them. She's sitting in the middle of a dusty road on a hot Texas day, fuming...

  • Act of War

    Dale Brown

    Near Houston, Texas, an oil refinery belonging to one of the world's largest energy companies is obliterated by a "backpack" nuclear device -- the first of many planned global attacks against corporations and government organizations accused of plund...

  • Buster and the Dance Contest

    Marc Brown

  • Criminal Minded

    Tracy Brown

    Lamin Michaels learned at his mother's knee the importance of chasing paper, so it's no surprise he gets into the drug game when he's just a teenager. When he meets Zion, a product of the New York City foster care and prison system, Lamin knows that ...

  • The Mommy Wish

    Pamela Browning

    Message in a Bottle To Somebody: I think they like each other. Molly and my dad, I mean. He hasn't been Mr. Grumpy in a long time and he's only watched jeppardy once. I will let you no what happens... Your friend, Phoebe Anne Norvald Molly McBryde...

  • On Her Own

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    When Barbara Zook's husband David is killed unexpectedly on their tenth wedding anniversary, she doesn't know how she will be able to go on. Not only has she lost the love of her life, but she is also pregnant with their fourth child. How can Barbara...

  • Shadows

    Edna Buchanan

    The Shadows is a historic 1920s house that inspires preservationists' dreams -- and developers' schemes. Built during Prohibition by a notorious rumrummer who vanished at sea, it was inherited by his son, a local athlete and war hero who lived down h...

  • The Hallowed Hunt

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile -- and Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff must transport the body to its burial place and the accused killer, the Lady Ijada, to judgment. With the death of the old Hallow Kin...

  • Sugar Rush

    Julie Burchill

    Sixteen-year-old Kim is horrified when her dad tells her she's got to leave her posh private school and go to infamous Ravendene Comprehensive, 'the source and inspiration of five thousand urban myths and horror stories'. How will she survive in this...

  • The Wedding Cake

    Ludima Gus Burton

    "You will dream of the man you are to marry if you put a piece of wedding cake under your pillow."

    Katherine Reese remembered those sage words and cast her spell upon her childhood crush. As a young girl, she even asked him to marry her when they...

  • Heart of the Storm

    Mary Burton

    When danger took root, her courage grew strong...and Rachel Emmons fled her violent marriage, seeking a safe haven. Her brave escape led her to the saving embrace of Ben Mitchell, the man who rescued her from the depths of the ocean and made her dete...

  • Changing Places

    Colette Caddle

    Anna Gallagher and Liam Harrison are happily married, have successful careers and when Liam's promotion comes through, they plan to start a family. That's until something happens to turn their world upside down. Anna's sister, Rachel is married to Ga...

  • Look Closely

    Laura Caldwell

    LOOK CLOSELY That's all the anonymous letter said, but attorney Hailey Sutter understands the meaning behind the well-chosen words. Someone wants her to investigate what happened to her mother, who died when Hailey was only seven. The death was...

  • Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way

    Bruce Campbell

    What you're reading right now is known as the "cover copy," or “flap copy.” This is where the 84,951 words of my latest book are cooked down to 350 words or less to capture your imagination/download.I pondered how to do that. Should I cut to the ...

  • Magic Street

    Orson Scott Card

    In a prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, infant Mack Street is found abandoned in an overgrown park and taken in by a blunt-speaking single woman. Growing up, Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has stra...

  • Kushiel's Scion

    Jacqueline Carey

    It is whispered that Kushiel's lineage carries the ability to perceive the flaws in mortal souls, to administer an untender mercy. I sense its presence like a shadow on my soul...the memories of blood and branding and horror, and the legacy of cruelt...

  • Runaway Mistress // Swept Away

    Robyn Carr

    Not much can go wrong when you're traveling first-class with your fabulously wealthy boyfriend -- until you find his wife's body in your hotel suite. Convinced she's next on Nick Noble's hit list, Jennifer Chaise takes off down the Vegas Strip arm...

  • Confessions of a "Wicked" Woman

    Susanna Carr

    GOOD "BAD GIRL"... This is the reason Stephanie Monroe ran away from small-town America in the first place--this insane sense of buttoned-up propriety that's managed to get her thrown in jail. It's not her fault people can't tell the difference betw...

  • Sister Switch

    Susanna Carr
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    Tracy Parks is in control of every situation. But on the eve of her society wedding, Tracy runs into her nemesis and ex-lover Nick...gorgeous, impossible Nick. And control is the last thing on her mind......

  • Confessions of a "Wicked" Woman

    Susanna Carr

    GOOD "BAD GIRL"... This is the reason Stephanie Monroe ran away from small-town America in the first place--this insane sense of buttoned-up propriety that's managed to get her thrown in jail. It's not her fault people can't tell the difference betw...

  • I Am Alive and You Are Dead

    Emmanuel Carrere

    "For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the ""one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century"" (The New York Times) but a source of divine revelation. In the riveting style that won accolades for The Adve...

  • Sofie Metropolis

    Tori Carrington

    Sofie Metropolis should be married. But when she caught her groom and her maid of honor carrying on with each other in the church, Sofie canceled the wedding. She took the honeymoon by herself, and she kept al/ the presents, including a small apartme...

  • The Orange Blossom Special

    Betsy Carter

    When we first meet Tessie Lockhart in 1958, she is pinning her hair into a French twist, dabbing Jean Naté on her wrists, and getting ready to change her life. This widowed mother of a thirteen-year-old has decided it's time for a fresh start for bo...

  • It's All Right Now

    Charles Chadwick

    Meet Tom Ripple, a man with an uncommon outlook on his common life. Through the vividness of his voice and his growing sense of the sorrow and absurdity of the world, Tom Ripple becomes an unusually appealing antihero, aware of his ordinariness and t...

  • Parineeta

    Saratchandra Chattopadhyaya

    A timeless love story from the master storyteller of Bengal

    Set in early twentieth century Kolkata, Parineeta (Espoused) is the unforgettable story of a child-woman s intense and bittersweet romance. Lalita, an orphaned girl who lives with h...

  • One Shot

    Lee Child

    Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enoug...

  • Whatever Reilly Wants...

    Maureen Child

    ONE REILLY DOWN, TWO TO GO... Connor Reilly had laughed at his brother for being the first triplet to lose the "no sex for ninety days" bet. Though there were two long, tempting months ahead for him, Connor was determined to go the distance. Becau...

  • The Timmy Touch

    Kelli Chipponeri

  • On the Edge

    Matt Christopher

    avier 'X' McSweeney has been working hard to conquer his fear of heights. Ben, an experienced rock climber, is teaching him how to boulder across the surface of a gigantic rock. X arranges for Ben to teach his friends Bizz Juarez and Jonas Malloy abo...

  • Michelangelo's Notebook

    Paul Christopher

    Life may imitate art...but death follows it. While studying art history at New York University, brilliant and beautiful Finn Ryan makes a startling discovery: a Michelangelo drawing of a dissected corpse-supposedly from the artist's near-mythical n...

  • Disney's Kim Possible Pick a Villain

    Scott Ciencin

    : She can do anything-and you can help her! Game On! (Pick a Villain Chapter Book #1): Featuring four original mini-adventures, Game On! asks you to pick which evil villain Kim will face. No big, huh? Well, we're not done yet! Next, you must choose h...

  • Joy for Mourning

    Dorothy Clark

    In a move that shocks nineteenth-century Philadelphia society, wealthy widow Laina Brighton turns her grand house into an orphanage for homeless children. Staid and stuffy teas quickly give way to peals of happy laughter echoing through the stately h...

  • Crisis at Katoomba Hospital

    Lucy Clark

    The doctor's new beginning After his challenging time as a doctor on the front line, Dr. Stephen Brooks needs somewhere to unwind, to forget the suffering he witnessed and to make a fresh start. What better place than the tranquil retreat of the B...

  • A Way from Home

    Nancy Clark

    It is 1992, and the Lowe family is living in a centuries-old castle in Prague. Alden Lowe works at the Czech Ministry of Finance and his wife Becky advises women entrepreneurs. With their daugher Julie, they appear a fortunate American family, but af...

  • The Asti Spumante Code: A Parody

    Toby Clements

    In the first-ever parody of one of the best-selling novels of all time, a nasty murder points to lots of sinister and important mysteries that will change the world. Why, for example, did the dead man leave so many bafflingly inane clues when a stick...

  • Ice Haven

    Daniel Clowes

    At long last: Daniel Clowes is back at Pantheon, with a brilliant new graphic novel already hailed by Time as “another of his hilariously slightly off-center worlds that have a vague sense of dread about them. Kind of like where you live.”

  • Diary of a Fairy Godmother

    Esme Raji Codell

    Hunky Dory's mother always told her, "You'll be the wickedest witch wherever the four winds blow." And why not? She's at the top of her class in charm school. She can make flowers wilt like wet spaghetti. And she can turn any prince into a frog -- bu...

  • Put Out the Light

    Sandra Carey Cody

    Jennifer Connors, activities director of Riverview Manor, is working late one night when she hears resident Nathaniel Pynchon pleading, "put out the light."Following Nate down a darkened corridor, Jennie discovers the body of Rosalie Cardamon.

    Ev...

  • Potter Springs

    Britta Coleman

    A poignantly rendered debut novel follows the Texas-sized loves and losses of star-crossed newlyweds who, forced by the consequences of their passion, leave upscale Houston for a small town in the Panhandle... Mark Reynolds has every reason to be ...

  • Cimmerian Rage

    Loren L. Coleman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Kern "Wolf-Eye" and his Men of the Wolves continue their war against the Vanir raiders. But innocents are paying the price for the Wolves' actions as the Vanir pillage and burn one village after another.

    Only by uniting the Cimmerian clans und...

  • The Greatest Risk

    Cara Colter

    Dedicated social worker and adoption expert Maggie Sullivan had put everyone else's needs above her own. Now, as her biological clock ticked, she decided to focus on herself and the growing ache to have a baby. Would fate-and a sexy collision-grant h...

  • Remember Me

    Kim Comeaux / Kimberley Comeaux

    Helen Nichols is trapped in a web of deceit. When the love of her life, Duke Trent "North" Kent arrives in her town after an accident and doesn't remember who he is, Helen desires to keep him in the dark. After all, he just might fall in love with he...

  • Scratch the Surface

    Susan Conant

    When mystery author Felicity Pride stumbles upon a gorgeous gray Chartreux snuggled up against a gentlemanly corpse (in her own vestibule!), she's determined to solve the crime--just like her own fictional sleuth would do. Naturally she wants to know...

  • The Black Angel

    John Connolly

    To those who have been forsaken, hell has no geography. The Black Angel begins with the disappearance of a young prostitute from one of New York City's seamiest neighborhoods. Like so many tormented souls before her, the girl's mother is inevitabl...

  • Dead on Town Line

    Leslie Connor

    After being murdered by a classmate, young Cassie becomes stuck in a realm between the living and the dead, thus turning to others in the same predicament for guidance, Cassie learns that she will have to face her past and, despite her reservations, ...

  • Rock My World

    Liza Conrad

    As part of her internship with a music magazine, seventeen-year-old Livy is assigned to follow around her father's band, the recently reunited Babydolls, while her father finally tries to assert himself as a responsible parent....

  • Vicksburg

    Kent Conwell

    When Private Investigator Tony Boudreaux agreed to drive an injured Jack Edney five hundred miles to Vicksburg, Mississippi for his father's funeral, Tony had no way of knowing that he would go through the nine lives of a cat before his visit to the ...

  • The Tyranny of the Night

    Glen Cook

    Welcome to the world of the Instrumentalities of the Night, where imps, demons, and dark gods rule in the spaces surrounding upstart humanity. On a mission in the Holy Land, the young Praman warrior Else is attacked by a creature of the Dark--in effe...

  • Murder at Midnight

    Marshall Cook

    Parishioners attending the early mass at St. Anne's find the body of their beloved priest sprawled, throat slit, across the floor of the sacristy--a small cross etched in his chest. It's a tragedy that hits community newspaper editor Monona Quinn ...

  • Marker

    Robin Cook

    As her relationship with Dr. Jack Stapleton begins to unravel, Dr. Laurie Montgomery starts investigating the inexplicable deaths of young, healthy people after successful routine surgery. She discovers that the deaths might be intentional--the work ...

  • Red Leaves

    Thomas H. Cook

    Eric Moore has a stable life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith babysits Amy Giordano, the eight-year-old daughter of a neighboring family. The next morning Amy is missing, and Eric isn't sure his son is innocent. Caug...

  • A Pressing Engagement

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    in

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    in

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    Jilly Cooper
    in

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    in

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    in

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    in

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    Jilly Cooper
    in

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    Jilly Cooper
    in

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    Jilly Cooper
    in

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    Jilly Cooper
    in

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    Jilly Cooper
    in

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    Jilly Cooper
    in

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    Jilly Cooper
    in

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    Jilly Cooper
    in

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    Brian Jay Corrigan

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    Lyn Cote

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    Bruce Coville

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    Debra Cowan

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    W. Dale Cramer

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    Sara Craven

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    Pam Crooks
    in

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    Susan Crosby

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    Michael Crow

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    John Crowley

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    Michael Cunningham

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    Marianne Curley

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    Lynda Curnyn

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    Janet Dailey

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    Michael J. Daley

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    B.J. Daniels

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    Lilian Darcy

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    Dee Davis

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    J. Madison Davis

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    Geralyn Dawson

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  • Emily Ever After

    Anne Dayton; May Vanderbilt

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    Melissa de la Cruz

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    Hilary De Vries

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    Keith R.A. Decandido

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    Keith R.A. Decandido

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    Claire Delacroix

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    Anna DeStefano

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    Pat Cunningham Devoto

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    Jacqueline Diamond

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    John Dickinson

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    Helen Dickson

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    Margaret Anne Doody

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    Ariel Dorfman

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    Rebecca Doughty

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    Charlotte Douglas

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    Candice Dow

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    Frances O'Roark Dowell

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    Dianne Drake

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    Tobias Druitt

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    Rachel Druten

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    Judy Duarte

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  • Bewitched Movie Novelization

    Cathy East Dubowski

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    Sarah Dunant

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    Diana Duncan

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    Phil Dunlap

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    Mark Dunn

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    Anne Marie Duquette

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    Doranna Durgin

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    Doranna Durgin
    in

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    Pete Earley

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    Umberto Eco

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    Cassie Edwards

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    Ake Edwardson

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    Barry Eisler

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    Jessie Elliot

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  • In the Ruins

    Kate Elliott

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    Tabor Evans

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    Bill Everett

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    David Farland

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    Andrew J. Fenady

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    Monica Ferris

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    Katie Fforde

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    Amanda Filipacchi

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    Catherine Fisher

    The fate of his world rests in his hands

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    John Flanagan

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    Donna Fleisher

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    Meredith Fletcher
    in

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    Alan Dean Foster

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    Lori Foster

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    Anatole France

    A Penguin Classic

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  • Maiden of Pain

    Kameron M. Franklin
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Heather Vogel Frederick

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    Judith E. French

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    Simon Furman

  • Marvel 1602

    Neil Gaiman

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    Terry Gamble

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    Ashley Gardner

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